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Love Letter LA: Celebrating and Advancing Unity and Solidarity Efforts in Los Angeles

South LA Café 1700 Browning Blvd., Los Angeles

Love Letter LA: Celebrating and Advancing Unity and Solidarity Efforts in Los Angeles The conversation will feature a number of community voices discussing LA's past, present, and future multiracial solidarity efforts. Food, refreshments and celebratory vibes included. The Love Letter LA Project intends ...

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Free

TWILIGHT: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith

Mark Taper Forum 135 N Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Nearly thirty years after the Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict, Center Theatre Group presents Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Gregg T. Daniel. This stunning, seminal play returns home to the Mark Taper Forum, reimagined with an ...

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A Mile in My Shoes by Kathryn Taylor Smith

Whitefire Theatre 13500 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA

Whitefire Theatre’s 2023 Solofest presents A Mile in My Shoes by Kathryn Taylor Smith, directed by Zadia Ife. Join Ester, an omniscient shoe whisperer, as she walks us through a day in her life on Skid Row. We meet a vagabond of ...

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Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival’s 30th Anniversary!

Barnsdall Gallery Theatre 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

THE LOS ANGELES WOMEN’S THEATRE FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY…..AND YOU’RE INVITED! From Wednesday, March 22, 2023 through Sunday, March 26, the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival will celebrate its 30th Anniversary, A TOAST TO 30! with five days of virtuosa performances, ...

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2Rhythms presents 2023 Melanin Monologue Competition: A Melody of Painted Voices

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice 5278 W Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

2Rhythms presents 2023 Melanin Monologue Competition: A Melody of Painted Voices 12 BIPOC Actors will be taking the opportunity to use their voices to share their stories. They will be competing with monologues that relate to their community, heritage, and/or culture! Come ...

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$5

Simone Anika Wilson’s 400 West Slauson Avenue

Hudson Backstage Theatre 6539 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

At a homeless encampment in South Central Los Angeles, a small diverse group makes their home under a freeway overpass. In a volatile political environment of police violence and Black Lives Matter they struggle to survive. Their existence is threatened by local ...

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$35